the Whitewater saga may not be occupying the headlines and airwaves as it did a few months ago but that does not mean the issue has gone away. The way the Democrat leadership in the House is dragging its feet on conducting hearings, you…

Mr. Speaker, just this week, Morton Kondracke wrote that President Clinton will propose a middle-class tax cut. In 1996. For those with short-term memory loss, that's the same promise he made in 1992--and the same promise he broke in 1993…

May 15 is opening day for fishing season in Minnesota. Catch and release may work well for Minnesotans out on the lake, but the catch and release of drug criminals does not work for Minnesotans and all Americans who are scared to leave…

by the very nature of its name, the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1994 implies that this Congress is taking significant steps to reduce the rate of crime in this country and deal swiftly and effectively with criminals. Guess again. Take the…

Yesterday House Banking Committee Chairman Gonzalez accused Republicans of "using an array of half truths, old rumors, half-baked conspiracy theories, and outright lies" in our efforts to hold RTC oversight hearings, and ask some important…

no matter how hard Congress tries to ignore it, this country is going broke. The national debt is so huge, it has become incomprehensible, almost an irrele<gr-thn-eq>vancy. The ability of future generations of Americans to prosper is being…

Mr. Chairman, everyone should be aware that for the previous speaker's district, Mr. Oberstar's 8th District of Minnesota, the Republican budget provides $61.4 million of family tax relief for 122,815 children. Mr. Chairman, in a few…

2 weeks ago there was a tremendous break-through in the health care reform debate: President Clinton endorsed the Nickles/Stearn consumer choice plan. An endorsement of the Nickles-Stearns plan, you say. When? Where? Why? Well, let me use…

it is no wonder they call the U.S. Senate the world's greatest deliberative body, because all too often here in the House the leadership will not even allow pressing issues to be discussed, let alone voted on. Choking off debate this time…

last evening President Clinton delivered a marvelous campaign speech that is certain to give Americans great hope about what he will deliver this year. However, the campaign is over and Mr. Clinton must deliver and be held accountable on…